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  1. The undercover officer shoots Brown dead and exchanges fire with Blue, while Green escapes through an emergency exit onto the street. Garber, contemplating the train's suspicious last movement, concludes that the hijackers bypassed the dead-man feature and are no longer on board.

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  3. Sep 19, 2023 · The film’s ending sees Walter Garber (Denzel Washington), a transit authority employee, successfully negotiating with Ryder (John Travolta), the leader of the hijackers. Garber manages to secure the release of all hostages except for one, who is killed earlier in the movie as a demonstration of Ryder’s ruthlessness.

  4. Nov 14, 1974 · The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo. Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers.

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    • Action, Crime, Thriller
    • Joseph Sargent
    • 1974-11-14
  5. The MTA had problems with the story depicted in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. One key feature of New York in the 1970s is missing from the film. The film’s visual style was...

  6. In a confined metro rail coach crammed with eighteen helpless passengers, the ruthless criminals threaten to start killing one hostage a minute, unless a massive one-million-dollar ransom in cash is delivered within an hour.

  7. “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” came fairly late in the 1970s cycle of Vehicular Disaster Epics; after two crippled airplanes “The Poseidon Adventure,” it was perhaps inevitable that we'd get a train, a dirigible in “The Hindenburg,” an elevator in “The Towering Inferno,” and a sequel to “The Poseidon Adventure” in ...

  8. May 23, 2019 · There is nothing frantic or overblown here. Instead the crux of the film is an extended hostage sequence inside a New York City downtown train, whose enveloping tension is combined with the coolheaded attempts of a Transit Authority police lieutenant to bide time and negotiate.

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